Keeping Pace with Legal Change
In one of the historic judgments, the Supreme Court of India covered one of the most important questions about the…
The case deals with the protracted dispute of the property located in Bengaluru and involves both the civil and criminal…
The present article explores judicial consequences of false rape complaints in the Indian law by looking into evidential provisions of IPC and CrPC. It specifies provisions on misleading information such as 182 and 211 IPC and their implications to complainants. The article also emphasizes legal protection and evidence playing the most important role in proving falsity.
On a petition by Ananth Kumar Hegde, a former Union Minister and Karnataka state BJP President, the High Court of Karnataka has stayed coercive action pursuant to a road rage case against him. The order has given short-term relief at a time when there is a legal case against the assault and abuse of power claims.
On April 29, 2025, in a path-breaking order, the Supreme Court of India dismissed the summons of nine policemen in the alleged Verka encounter killing of Mukhjit Singh, and reinstated proceedings against the Deputy Commissioner of Police by holding that sanction under Section 197 CrPC was not necessary.
Under Section 167(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code, the Supreme Court has decided that when there is no minimum punishment stipulated for an offense, the only punishment that applies is sixty days of detention without charges. An Official Secrets Act case was brought before the court, and the court upheld Rajeev Sharma’s default bail.
The Supreme Court held that under Section 239 CrPC magistrates must decide discharge solely on the charge-sheet and Section 173 documents, excluding any defence-sourced evidence to prevent premature mini-trials.
This is the introduction. A fundamental procedural issue concerning the use of High Court powers under Section 482 of the…
